50 and 52 Westgate

A pair of late 18th-century townhouses, possibly dating to 1780 and originally built for the woolstapler Thomas Crowther, stand on Westgate. The buildings were reconfigured into a single property in the early 20th century and served as a branch of Lloyds Bank from 1926 to 1980.

The buildings are constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern on the Westgate elevation, with stone dressings. The roof is covered with stone slate. A stone ashlar frontage, installed around 1927 for Lloyds Bank, covers the ground floor.

The townhouses were originally planned as a mirrored pair, with carriage entrances at either end of the Westgate frontage leading to Woolpacks Yard and Barstow Square. These entrances originally provided access to the upper floor domestic accommodation. The interior has undergone significant alterations.

The south-facing Westgate elevation is three stories high and four bays wide. The upper floors each have three windows per bay. The first-floor windows at either end of the elevation have round arched heads with keystones and impost blocks which extend as lintels over blind lancets, imitating Venetian windows. Other upper-floor windows have gauged-brick flat arches with stone tripartite keystones, and all have replaced sash windows. The second-floor windows are smaller, almost square in shape. A stone dentil cornice tops the elevation, above a low-pitched, hipped roof with no surviving chimneys.

The ground-floor stone ashlar frontage is of simple, stripped classical design and incorporates three sash windows in the centre, with an ornamented cill band and doorways set in wide openings with plain raised surrounds. The carriage entrances to the rear yards flank the frontage, each with a keystoned basket arch.

The rear elevation features a projecting, three-story wing that extends two bays towards the rear, situated between the two yards. This range is attached to the former Woolpack Inn.